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Starting Out in the '50s

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The best memoirs of recent years reveal "The Way We Live Now" as well as
or better than most contemporary fiction.

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Dan Wakefield
Dan Wakefield's memoirs include New York in the Fifties, which was made into a documentary film.His most recent book is...

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